New x3
cogent
(of an argument or case) clear, logical, and convincing.
yrs of Cicero
106-43bc
establishment of the Romanov dynasty
1613. based right to rule b/c tzar embodied God on Earth and thus should be unrestricted by laws/burecracy/aristocracy and that the tzar was a father figure. peseants thought he was a god
yrs of John Locke
1632-1704
yrs Nancy Pelosi was Speaker
2007-2011. first female
colloquialism
A colloquialism is a word, phrase or other form used in informal languag
princess cake
A princess cake is a traditional Swedish layer cake or torte consisting of alternating layers of airy sponge cake, jam, pastry cream, and a thick-domed layer of whipped cream. This is topped by marzipan, giving the cake a smooth rounded top. The marzipan overlay is usually green, sprinkled with powdered sugar, and often decorated with a pink marzipan rose.
thinly veiled
A veiled comment is expressed in a disguised form rather than directly and openly. He made only a veiled reference to international concerns over human rights issues. This last clause is a thinly-veiled threat to those who might choose to ignore the decree.
plot of Norma Rae
A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved.
Mt in NY
Adorindack
Sarah Silverman in SNL
After beginning her stand-up comedy in 1992, Silverman was part of the 1993-94 season of Saturday Night Live (SNL) for 18 weeks as a writer and featured player. She was fired after one season where only one of the sketches she wrote survived to dress rehearsal and none aired, although she did appear on the show as a cast member in skits, usually in smaller supporting roles.
Van Jones
American news commentator, author, and non-practicing attorney.[1] He is a co-founder of several nonprofit organizations, including the Dream Corps, a "social justice accelerator"[2] that operates three advocacy initiatives: #cut50, #Yeswecode and Green for All. He is the author of The Green Collar Economy and Rebuild the Dream, both ranking as New York Times bestselling books. He is a regular CNN contributor and host of The Van Jones Show.[3] He served as President Barack Obama's Special Advisor for Green Jobs,[4] as a distinguished visiting fellow at Princeton University,[5] and as a co-host of CNN's political debate show Crossfire.[6] He is president of the Dream Corps and is among activists featured in 13th, a 2016 documentary directed by Ava DuVernay about the US justice system and factors that have resulted in the over-incarceration of minorities and the highest incarceration rate in the world.
Larry Flynt
American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP). LFP mainly produces sexually graphic videos and magazines, most notably Hustler. Flynt has fought several prominent legal battles involving the First Amendment, and has unsuccessfully run for public office. He is paralyzed from the waist down due to injuries sustained in a 1978 murder attempt by serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin. In 2003, Arena magazine listed him at No. 1 on the "50 Powerful People in Porn" list.
Archie Bunker
Archibald "Archie" Bunker is a fictional character from the 1970s American television sitcom All in the Family played by Carroll O'Connor. Bunker, a main character of the series, is a World War II veteran, blue-collar worker, and family man. Described as a "lovable bigot" and head of the bunker family
first emperor of Rome
Augustus
led Weatherman
Bill Ayers
"Crossfire"
Crossfire is an American nightly current events debate television program that aired on CNN from 1982 to 2005 and again from 2013 to 2014. Its format was designed to present and challenge the opinions of a politically liberal pundit and a conservative pundit.
Gabby Giffords
D-AZ from Tuscon. H of REp. -2007-2012. Blue dog democrat -Jared Loughner in 2011 at a Safeway near TUscon
doctor shopping
Doctor shopping is the practice of visiting multiple physicians to obtain multiple prescriptions for otherwise illegal drugs, or the medical opinion that one wants to hear. It is a common practice of drug addicts, suppliers of drug addicts,[1] hypochondriacs[2][3] or patients of factitious disorder and factitious disorder imposed on another.[4][5] A doctor who, for a price, will write prescriptions without the formality of a medical exam or diagnosis is known as a "writer" or "writing doctor"
hx of the universal language
Esperanto was created in the late 1870s and early 1880s by L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist from Białystok, then part of the Russian Empire, but now part of Poland. According to Zamenhof, he created the language to reduce the "time and labour we spend in learning foreign tongues" and to foster harmony between people from different countries: "Were there but an international language, all translations would be made into it alone ... and all nations would be united in a common brotherhoo
jewled russian eggs
Faberge eggs
Fordisme
Fordisme
high number of new constitutions
France has had 11 constitutions ince 1891
Ronan Polanski
French-Polish film director, producer, writer, and actor. Since 1978, he has been a fugitive from the U.S. criminal justice system, having fled the country while awaiting sentencing in his sexual abuse case, where he pleaded guilty to statutory rape. drugged/raped 13yo. Pianist. ROsemary's Baby.
black Olympic gymnists
Gabby Douglas and Simone Bilas
lawyer in the Zenger case
Hamilton
first to separate history from myth
Herodotus
ancient historians
Herodotus-"Histories". first to separate history and myth Thucydides: History of the PEloponnesian War
providence/Roman city in North Africa
Hippo
editor of NY Tribune
Horance Greenley
Knesset
Iasrael
longest constitution in the world
India's is 251 pages
painting of the death of Socrates
Jacques-Louis David
election of 1800 in USA
Jefferson won when Hamilton threw his support to him over Burr
famous actress who is an anti-vaxer
Jenny McCarthy
government in Israel
Knesset
marzipan
Marzipan is a confection consisting primarily of sugar or honey and almond meal (ground almonds), sometimes augmented with almond oil or extract.
Meiji period
Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.[1] This period represents the first half of the Empire of Japan, during which Japanese society moved from being an isolated feudal society to a Westernised form. Fundamental changes affected its social structure, internal politics, economy, military and foreign relations. The period corresponded to the reign of Emperor Meiji and was succeeded upon the accession of Emperor Taishō by the Taishō period.
menma
Menma is a Japanese condiment made from lactate-fermented bamboo shoots. The bamboo shoots are dried in the sun or through other means before the process of fermentation. Menma is a common topping for noodle soups, notably ramen. Menma is primarily produced in China, with brands imported from southern China and Taiwan being popular. Menma is also known as shinachiku (支那竹), "Chinese bamboo".
Nancy Pelosi
Minority whip, first female majority leader. (Thus, the closest female ever to the White HOuse)House minority leader. D-San Francisco
Miso soup
Miso soup is a traditional Japanese soup consisting of a stock called "dashi" into which softened miso paste is mixed. Many ingredients are added depending on regional and seasonal recipes, and personal preference.
newspaper by Horance Greeley
NY Tribune
female who has come the closest to becoming president
Nancy Pelosi when she was Speaker
last Romanov czar
Nicholas 2 in 1918
nori
Nori (海苔) is the Japanese name for edible seaweed species of the red algae genus Pyropia, including P. yezoensis and P. tenera. It has a strong and distinctive flavor. It is used chiefly in Japanese cuisine as an ingredient to wrap rolls of sushi or onigiri, in which case the term refers to the dried sheets.
best actress win for Sally Fields
Norma Rae
race of Goalith
Philistine
allegory of the cave
Plato in The Republic
killed by the Charles Manson clan
Shanon Tat
lack of respect to the gods
Socrates
wrote Antigone
Sophacles
wrote Oedipus
Sophacles
3 famous ancient playrights
Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
Jenny McCarthy
The View co-host, BASEketball, Santa Baby, Scream 3, famous anti-vaxxer
"History of the Peloponnesian War"
Thucydides
sacked Rome
Visigoths sacked Rome in 410AD. led Romans to think the gods puished Rome for adopting Christianity
presided over the Constitutional Congresss
Washington
Sarah Silverman
Wreck it Ralph, I love you AMerica w/SS, SNL writer,
stollen
a fruit bread of nuts, spices, and dried or candied fruit, coated with powdered sugar or icing sugar. It is a traditional German bread eaten during the Christmas season,
bigot
a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions
hatemongers
a person who kindles hatred, enmity, or prejudice in others
purveyor
a person who sells or deals in particular goods.
defintion of matter
anything that has mass and takes up space. the physical material of the universe
soba
buckwheat
work by Daedalus
built the labrynth fo the minotaru
"Histories"
by Herodotus
Rush Limbaugh
conservative talk-show host against medial liberal bias
belief of MIchelle Malkin
conservative. fox news
Socrates charges
corrupt the youth, impiety (lack of respect to gods")
vitriol
cruel and bitter criticism.
flagship
flagship is a vessel used by the commanding officer of a group of naval ships, characteristically a flag officer entitled by custom to fly a distinguishing flag. Used more loosely, it is the lead ship in a fleet of vessels, typically the first, largest, fastest, most heavily armed, or best known. Over the years, the term "flagship" has become a metaphor used in industries such as broadcasting, automobiles, airlines, and retailing to refer to their highest profile or most expensive products and locations
bulk seller of food
grocer
legal constitution in New Zealand
has a number of treatsies including one with the maori that acts as the legal consitituion
how did the afforable care act pass through congress
health care bill rammed through congress like jamming a dollar bill into a vending machine
king cake
king cake is a type of cake associated in a number of countries with the festival of Epiphany at the end of the Christmas season; in other places, it is associated with the pre-Lenten celebrations of Mardi Gras/Carnival purple/yellow sugar to decorate top
Sandra Fluke
lawyer/feminist. She first came to public attention when, in February 2012, Republican members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee refused to allow her to testify to that committee on the importance of requiring insurance plans to cover birth control during a discussion on whether medical insurance should have a contraception mandate.[6] She later spoke to only Democratic representative
Lincoln's "if I could save the union..."
letter to Horance Greeley in 1862
right to rule in china
mandate of heaven
marriage of Rush Limbaugh
married one wife at the house of Clarence Thoms and he officiated
ancient greek system to kick people out
ostracizing voting w/pieces of broken pottery
social division of Rome
patricians, plebians
"we the people..."
preamble to the constitution
japanese noodles
ramen-think wheat based. dough rises before rolled. served in broth soba- buckwheat udon-thickest. white color
British consitution
series. magna carta, English bill of rights
punishment for Jared Loughner
shot Gabby GIffords. 7 consecutive life sentences plus 140 yrs w/o possibility of parole
Keith Oberman
sports commentator
Martin Luther
started the Protestant Reformation
allagory
story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one
definition of Chemistry
study of the properties of materials and the changes they undrgo
cume
the practice of measuring the size of US commercial broadcasting and newspaper audiences, cume, short for "cumulative audience", is a measure of the total number of unique consumers over a specified period.
enmity
the state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something
ramen
thick wheat based. dough rises before rolled. served in broth. from CHina during the Meiji period
udon
thickest noodle. white
miso
traditional Japanese seasoning produced by fermenting soybeans with salt and koji (the fungus Aspergillus oryzae) and sometimes rice, barley, seaweed or other ingredients. The result is a thick paste used for sauces and spreads, pickling vegetables or meats, and mixing with dashi soup stock to serve as miso soup called misoshiru (味噌汁), a Japanese culinary stapl
Rush-Bagot Agreement
treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, following the War of 1812.
alternative name for down syndrome
trisomy 21
Locke's opinion about when the law ends
when the law ends, tyranny begins
what are you asking when you make birth control free
you pay for my sex-life
